He knew that Icahn had made billions as a corporate raider in the eighties and had pioneered the art of “greenmail.” (The raiders would buy a block of shares in a company and sell them back at a premium, in return for agreeing to drop a challenge to the company’s management.) But Parsons, who once worked for Nelson A.

“It never hurts to show a guy some respect,” Parsons said later. So it was natural that when, in August, Parsons learned that Carl Icahn’s hedge fund, Icahn Partners, had joined three others to acquire three-per-cent ownership of Time Warner, he called Icahn and asked if he could drop by. He hugs strangers, and believes that he can make just about anyone like him. Parsons, who runs Time Warner, the world’s largest media company, does not fit the C.E.O. In the sequence in question, Schumer and Hawn's characters have just narrowly escaped capture, and it would be somewhat throttling to see them suddenly become engaged in a game of strip poker.Richard D. That being said, for all of the reasons Jonathan Levine mentions it makes sense that this bit didn't make it into the film. People were like, 'Why are they doing this in the middle of the movie?' So we took it out, even though I do think it's one of the funnier scenes in the movie, it was one of those instances where it undermined the tone and we had to get rid of it.įunny enough, I actually know that this scene was still included in Snatched up until just a few weeks ago, as I spoke with stars Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn about it in late March. It was really, really funny, and.Paul Feig: There was one instance of full nudity.Jonathan Levine: There was one instance of full nudity - full frontal male nudity - and it just ended up undermining the stakes of the movie. They lose, and they wind up having to be there naked - not really naked, but movie naked. There was a scene when they're on the boat - and it will end up somewhere - where Amy and Goldie wind up getting drunk and playing strip poker with the people on the ship. Jonathan Levine: I would say the strip poker scene was pretty funny.

The filmmakers explained they were sad to lose a sequence involving a bit of gratuitous nudity that they thought was hilarious - but then explained why it didn't make the theatrical print: During the Los Angeles press day for Snatched late last month, I had my own mother by my side interviewing the cast and filmmakers behind the movie - and when sitting down with Jonathan Levine and producer Paul Feig she asked about cut sequences they were sad to lose in editing.

Boys gutted 2006 poker strip scene